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Contents

Contents

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

On My Work as an Author

APPENDIX

My Position as a Religious Author in “Christendom” and My Strategy

The Point of View for My Work as an Author

A. The Equivocalness or Duplexity in the Whole Authorship, Whether the Author Is an Esthetic or a Religious Author

B. The Explanation: That the Author Is and Was a Religious Author

Part Two

THE AUTHORSHIP VIEWED AS A WHOLE, AND FROM THE POINT OF VIEW THAT THE AUTHOR IS A RELIGIOUS AUTHOR

CHAPTER I

A. The Esthetic Writing

Why the beginning was made with esthetic writing, or what this writing, understood in the totality, signifies

1. “Christendom” is an enormous illusion

2. If one is truly to succeed in leading a person to a specific place, one must first and foremost take care to find him where he is and begin there

3. The illusion that religion and Christianity are something to which one turns only when one becomes older

4. Even though a person refuses to go along to the place to which one is endeavoring to lead him, there is still one thing that can be done for him: compel him to become aware

5. All the esthetic writing seen in the totality of the writing is a deception, but understood in a singular way

B. Concluding Postscript

C. The Religious Writing

CHAPTER II

The Dissimilarity of My Personal Existing Corresponding to the Dissimilar Nature of the Writing

A. Personal Existing in Relation to the Esthetic Writing

B. Personal Existing in Relation to the Religious Writing

CHAPTER III

Governance’s Part in My Authorship

“The Single Individual”

Two “Notes” Concerning My Work as an Author

No. 1

For the Dedication to “That Single Individual”

No. 2

A Word on the Relation of My Work as an Author to “the Single Individual”

Postscript to the “Two Notes”

Armed Neutrality

Key to References

Original Title Page of On My Work as an Author

Original Title Page of The Point of View for My Work as an Author

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to On My Work as an Author and The Point of View for My Work as an Author

First Manuscript Page of Armed Neutrality

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to Armed Neutrality

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

Acknowledgments

Collation of On My Work as an Author in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works

Collation of The Point of View for My Work as an Author in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works

Bibliographical Note

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